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In Lhokseumawe, Aceh, around 3,000 government contract employees have yet to receive their July salaries or annual 13th-month salary payments, while also facing uncertainty over whether their contracts will be renewed.
Civil servants attend a ceremony to mark National Education Day on May 2, 2023, at Tegar Beriman Square in Cibinong, Bogor regency, West Java. (Antara/Yulius Satria Wijaya)
The central government’s austerity-driven cuts to regional fund transfers have left local administrations struggling to pay thousands of contract government workers, triggering growing anger across the country.The financial strain boiled over on Monday during morning assembly at the Tidore Islands mayoralty office in North Maluku, after the local administration announced plans to furlough around 2,000 contract workers.
